Books Out of Place
Friday 11th May 2018
(IAS seminar room, Millburn House, Warwick campus)
This symposium will consider what happens when fiction is removed from its national framework, looking in particular at whether we must inevitably assimilate texts and read from our own national context; how the ideas and ideologies of fictional texts are transformed through travel; if a book’s success abroad affects its status at home; the circumstances under which translated fiction operates innovatively or conservatively in the receiving culture; and the material processes and agencies by which foreign fiction reaches an English-speaking readership.
10.00- 10.45 Maureen Freely, University of Warwick, “Why is Orhan Pamuk so Unpopular in Turkey”
10.45 - 11.30 David Kurnick, Rutgers University, “Before World Literature: Roberto Bolaño and the Specific Sublime”
11.45-12.30 Olivia Santovetti, University of Leeds, ‘The "Ferrante case” in Italy and outside. On translation, anonymity and smashing the patriarchy.”
LUNCH for all attendees
13.30 – 14.15 Karin Graf, Graf and Graf Literary Agency, “How. does it travel? Why there are so many international novels around in Germany and so few German books abroad”
14.15 – 15.00 Peter Filkins, Bard College, “Delayed Flights: H.G. Adler, Ingeborg Bachmann, and W.G. Sebald in America."
15.30 – 16.30 Roundtable with all speakers
For full description and to register please go to:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/books/
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